The National Basketball Association kicked off its 73rd season with the first two games on October 16th. But it made big news in the preseason as the NBA and Turner Broadcasting officially confirmed that fans would be able to purchase a portion of live games to watch on Turner’s B/R Live streaming service, nba.com, and the NBA app.

By Dmitry Bagrov, Senior Vice President of European Business, Head of London Office

Throughout the year, the DataArt team participates in various tech industry events. Frequently, we are asked to speak at them, sharing our 21-years of experience in digital transformation programs for clients from finance, retail, healthcare, travel and logistics and beyond.

If you’re a city dweller, you know that parking can be a nightmare. As if the traffic congestion wasn’t enough of an obstacle for arriving at your appointment on time, finding a suitable place to leave your car sometimes takes as long as the commute itself. And with the population of cities continuing to expand, this problem will only get worse without a new approach to this major dilemma.

Following many years of declining revenues, the music industry has finally started growing exponentially, with consumption in the first half of 2018 reaching the highest peak we’ve seen for the past 15 years.

The Blockchain East summit and trade show, Beyond Cryptocurrency: Exploring the Business of Blockchain, took place in NYC this fall. DataArt has delivered dozens of blockchain solutions over the past several years, most of them for early adopters of DLT technology – start-ups and mid-size businesses.

It is an undeniable fact that virtual assistants and voice-controlled devices have become a part of our life.The recently announced Alexa-Cortana partnership only reaffirms the determination of the leading technology providers to strengthen their position and gain additional market share.

Cloud migration is underway on Wall Street. A recent Wall Street Journal article quoting Goldman Sachs research stated that 18% of computing is currently happening in a cloud environments and survey responders expect that number to reach 34% by the end of 2019.

“We will eventually see a whole new level of user generated content using licensed music and that can become a much bigger part of the business. Working with fully licensed players in the UGC space will mean that we can create better experiences for music fans and fairly pay rights holders.” — Ole Obermann, Chief Digital Officer and Executive Vice President of Business Development at Warner Music Group.

The issue of cloud migration and cloud operations is tricky. There are numerous questions that arise from the idea of moving to the cloud. We have addressed some of these questions here and hope that this paper will help you better understand the issues surrounding cloud computing.